Fifth Grade Art


Continue contour drawing practices: objects from real life
Color families and schemes
Non-objective art
Collage: paper folding, fringing, curling, spiraling, pleating.
Printmaking: Cutting stamps, linoleum
Clay: realistic forms and details, animals with texture, people
Papier-mache animals
Tempera batik painting

Identify major compositional elements
Suggest alternative ways to do things
Compare and contrast artworks in form and meaning
Identify style,symbols,mood
Aesthetic questions: what should it look like?
Identify artists
Compare and contrast styles

Vocabulary:

Design: harmony, motif, gradation, symmetry, asymmetry, emphasis, balance, composition, repetition, rhythm, simplicity, unity, variety.
Shape: concave, convex, conical, pyramidal, exaggerated, geometric, organic
Representation: foreshortening, proportion, symbol
Color: analogous, monochromatic, shading, harmony, spectrum, neutralization, transparent, opaque, translucent
Size: microscopic, telescopic
Space: narrow, wide, horizon line, perspective, depth
Texture: rough, smooth,